Less than one month before he heads to trial, former New Orleans crime boss Telly Hankton faces responsibility for one of the most-high profile post-Hurricane Katrina massacres, according to federal prosecutors.

It centers around the killing of five teenagers in Central City almost a decade ago. In court filings, prosecutors said Hankton is responsible and was the gunman who killed the five teenagers.

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The murders made national headlines and prompted then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco to call the National Guard back to the city to patrol the streets.

Michael Anderson was arrested and convicted of those murders, which cops said was over drug territory.

Anderson was sentenced to death, the first person to receive such a sentence in over a decade in New Orleans.

But less than a year later, then-Judge Lynda Van Davis vacated Anderson's convictions. He later pleaded guilty to other another killing and is serving a life sentence.

Hankton is also serving a life sentence for two other murders and is set to stand trail on other murder charges in June.

The feds want to use allegations that Hankson gunned down the five teens in 2006 as evidence against him at the June trial, even though, at this time Hankton has never been charged with the Central City massacre.

Hankton's lawyers said it should not be allowed in.

There is a gag order in the case preventing anyone from talking.

Hankton was called a crime boss by Mayor Mitch Mitch Landrieu and then Police Chief Ronal Serpas in 2011.

Coincidentally his mother and cousin accepted plea deals Monday and will now not stand trail in June with him.

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